Taking the campus out of the college
Jeff Moses
If you ask me, the fact that classes are still taught on campus is rather absurd.
Look around, the writing is on the wall; We are entering a new era of technology.
This October, Mesa Community College will be looking to become certified in online learning and disperse degrees that can be earned completely online.
For a job market that requires the best, brightest, and most tech-savvy, it could not come any sooner.
Gone are the days when students have to pass through massive college campuses while carrying heavy backpacks and books, because the convenience of online classes is in its place.
Never before have students had such freedom to plan their classes around their work schedules, and with the cost of living rising almost every day, students need to punch the clock as often as possible.
Hell, if a student works a desk-job, homework and assignments could conceivably be done while on the clock.
This would not only help students who have to take a job to make ends meet, but students now have unprecedented abilities to map an AA degree around extra-curricular activities such as sports and clubs.
With most classroom learning coming from boorish teachers who read straight out of the book anyway, what difference does it make if students choose to cut out the middleman, and skip the commute to school?
Online classes are even greener than in-person lectures, because students no longer have to use additional gasoline to get from home to school.
They are also not using nearly as much paper because everything is done digitally. There are no hand-outs, no books, and no print-outs because everything is done on the computer.
The school with the biggest enrollment in the world is a strictly online college. The people have spoken, and we want online degrees.
The online college degree has become so popular, even high schools are taking the same route by going online.
Life becomes so much simpler when you no longer have to get lost on confusing campuses, where no one knows how to find their class. There is nothing worse then being lost on a hot day on foot here in the Valley.
Online classes also put the whole class on a level playing field. Looks, voice and appearence can no longer faction into a teachers grading paterns if they don’t know what a student looks or sounds like.
If every school switched to totally online we could even eradicate bullying in our life time.
Just one more way technology can save us from ourselves.
With the plethora of online options in the year 2012, it seems almost silly to leave home for anything, even a college degree.
